How to get money back if you paid for 'free' tax-filing services with TurboTax

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How to get money back if you paid for 'free' tax-filing services with TurboTax
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Here’s how to get money back from TurboTax if you were one of 4 million taxpayers who were deceived by misleading promises of free tax-filing services.

The $141 million settlement deal between Intuit, the maker of TurboTax tax-filing software, and all 50 state attorneys general means that some 4 million affected taxpayersIntuit will pay up to $90 to Americans who paid to file their taxes with TurboTax from 2016 to 2018 when they should have been eligible to do so for freeAs part of that program, taxpayers who earned less than $34,000 for the 2018 tax year would have qualified for the free service.

That report, titled"Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free," said Intuit had come to an agreement with the federal government in which the company agreed to provide free tax filing services for millions of eligible Americans, as long as the IRS did not create its own system for doing so.

"Frequently 'free' didn’t mean free at all," ProPublica reported."Many who started in TurboTax Free Edition found that if their return required certain commonplace tax forms, they would have to upgrade to a paid edition in order to file."

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